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Finally Fighting Back
Fighting with Mr.Covey(Chapter X)
Demeka Drew

Audience:
The audience could be any race. The text could be informing and also interesting to any race, it just depends on who the person is and their preferance.The age of the audience would not be to young because there is a very vivid and descriptive language used.The education level would be considered high of his time because he uses proper grammar and larger words like “aldultry”.
Rhetorical Appeals
: In chapter X Douglass expresses Ethos and Pathos.He uses
Ethos by using correct grammar and an appropriate level of vocabualry.”The gratification afforded by triumph was a full compensation for whatever else might follow,even death itself.” This shows him using excellent vocabulary because he was a negro slave and did not really get educated. Pathos is used by him using emotional examples and vivid descriptions.When he talks about the effects of covey beating him he says,”From the crown of my head to my feet,I was covered with blood.”This quote puts a vivid image in your head of how bad he had to be beaten for him to be that bloody.
Romantic Language:
There was the use of Romantic language by using similies with flowery language and also long sentences with a variety of puntuations.”I suppose I looked like a man who had escaped a den of wild beasts,and barely escaped them.”He is comparing his body shape or appeareance to being attacked by wild beasts and the flowerly language is not just saying beasts but adding the adjective wild.”While down in this situation,Mr.Covey took up the hickory slat with which hughes had been striking off the half-bushel measure,and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head,making a large wound,and the blood ran freely;and with this again told me to get up.”The quote is long in length and it helps you to gather the information of what is going on.
Romantic Ideas:
The romantic ideas expressed was Inspiration and Imagination. “As soon as I found out

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